The aim: To examinate depressive symptoms among heart failure patients. Another aim was to examinate the differences in depressive symptoms between gender and between heart failure patients and the population. METHOD: The self-assassment formula MADRS was answered by twenty patients with heart failure at the University hospital in Uppsala. MAIN RESULT: Among the participants 31,3 % showed diffRent levels of depressive symptoms. Mild depression was more common in women.

The aim of this study was to examine ways in which High School Students approach academic writing. Both discursive and critical-analytical levels in 21 PM-texts and 14 investigating literary essays were analyzed through a genre theoretical and sociocultural framework in order to widen the understanding of students? usage of explicit textual and interpersonal markers as well as their techniques of writing abstracts. The results showed that nearly 25 percent of the putative abstracts consisted of sampled and reshaped text sequences. The majority of these were on the other hand results of a creative process in which the students reshaped utterances from different sources.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur barn i förskolan uppfattar miljö, natur och miljöproblem. Mil-jöarbete är i högsta grad aktuellt i förskolan då det står i läroplanen att det ska vara en stor del av verk-samheten (Skolverket, 2010). Nio barn i åldern fem till sex år från två förskolor i olika kommuner var med i studien. Vi använde oss av halvstrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer.Resultatet visade att miljö var ett okänt begrepp för barnen, men däremot var begreppet natur mer känt för dem. Framförallt beskrev barnen naturen i termer av komponenter som träd, blommor, växter och djur.

The aim of this paper was to investigate how 40 typical speakerswith Finnish accent, aged 65-84 years, performed in speech assessmentthrough Dysartribedömningen, a Swedish dysarthria assessment instrument.Their results were compared with results of a matched Swedish nativespeaking reference group. Both groups were assessed in areas offunction/structure, prosody/intelligibility and through a survey oncommunication. Results indicated that the performances of the Finnishparticipant group were estimated as more deviant than the Swedish,considering all areas. The Finnish participants were deviant in articulationand they had a significantly lower speech rate in reading. They also hadsignificantly lower scores in intelligibility compared to the reference group.The results of the survey of communication showed that the Finnishparticipants estimated their levels of activity and participation to besignificantly more limited compared to the reference group.

The overall purpose of this essay is to come to a deeper understanding about videos in the Youtube beauty community by using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. By answering the main questions of the essay which are; What quantitatively measurable components are there in the videos that can be seen as contributing factors leading to the fact that some generate more views that others?; Is there a set mold for success containing certain aspects that a video must have to stand out?; What correlations can be found between the two categories of analysis and how do these potential correlations affect the popularity of the video? and What effects do specific components on the level of popularity of the video?, we?ve been able to distinguish differences as well as similarities on both qualitative and quantitative levels. We have also seen that using the two methods together have enabled us to reach more profound results. The main result that we have found on a quantitative level is that there are obvious correlations between a high level of popularity and a good visual quality.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur personer med lindriga kognitiva funktionshinder ser på arbete som fenomen. Metoden var kvalitativ med en fenomenologisk ansats. För att få svar på frågeställningarna intervjuades 6 personer, 2 kvinnor och 4 män, som hade arbetspraktik eller arbetsverksamhet genom ett företag som arbetade utifrån ISA-metoden. Personerna hade alla lindriga kognitiva funktionshinder. Teoretisk ram var normaliseringsprincipen, Social role valorization och andra aspekter på normali-sering.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka hur sångelever talar om sina uppfattningar om, och sitt arbete med, stöd. För att ta reda på detta använde vi oss av kvalitativa intervjuer med sex stycken sångelever på gymnasiets estetiska program med inriktning musik. Huvuddragen i de uppfattningar som vi mötte var att stöd är nödvändigt för att sjunga hälsosamt, speciellt vid starka och höga toner. De flesta av våra informanter hade svårt att uttrycka sig verbalt om vad som sker i kroppen vid stödanvändning, trots att flera uppgav att de har lätt för att använda sig av stöd rent praktiskt. Informanterna kopplar främst stöd till bukmuskulaturen och andningen.

This essay shows how the concept of virtue can deepen our understanding considering processes of empowerment. A virtue is understood as a trait of character, manifested in habitual action, that it is good for person a to have. Virtues are interpreted as socially constructed. Empowerment is presented as a process toward self-confidence and self-determination where recourses and freedom propels the development toward power for the individual, the household and the community. Why does the concept of virtue deepen our understanding? It is argued that our theoretical perceptive of empowerment needs to better encompass values, norms and practise.

Ordet demokrati betyder, som de flesta förmodligen vet, folkstyre. Men vad innebär demokrati om vi bortser från den rent semantiska betydelsen? Hur får demokratin sin innebörd i dag? Och vad får det för konsekvenser?Mitt syfte med denna uppsats har varit att med hjälp av ett diskursanalytiskt angreppssätt granska hur begreppet demokrati framställs i Demokratiutredningens slutbetänkande En uthållig demokrati! (SOU 2000:1). Mitt intresse inriktades även på hur den demokratiska medborgaren beskrevs i texten. Vad avser man med ordet demokrati? Hur konstrueras demokratin och den demokratiska medborgaren i texten?Demokratin och dess historia beskrivs vanligen linjärt där demokratin betraktas som en i det närmaste fysisk realitet.

This essay analyses the national standard for maintenance aid and if it´s compatible with the standards set in the government mould.As new-liberal ideas get more scope in the Swedish policy the analyses focus consisted in seeing about the social contribution been changed, and if the standards in the government mould have lost their worth.The national standard is not edified on the basis of subsistence levels, but becomes paradoxical when numbers of welfare recipients is the measure used in order to measure poverty, concurrent as the government mould aims to protecting every citizen?s welfare.The study analyses a type of society that has emerged during a period of time. In a normative analysis concepts are set in relation to each other where, the analysis presents standards that are vague. If the standards in the government mould are presented as something valuable and get their worth back in the policy, perhaps also the citizen´s in Sweden change attitude to poverty and welfare contribution.   Social- liberalism justifies social contribution and the welfare State, while new-liberalism has other opinions about what redistribution should contain.

Title: Valuing Real Estate FCFE and interest coverage under macroeconomic uncertainty with scenario analysisAuthors: Marcus Ewerstrand, Jakob MattssonAdvisor: Gert SandahlBackground and problem: After the collapse in the Swedish economy in the beginning of the 1990-ties, the company Secerum was launched. Securums objective was to handle unsecured credits from Nordbanken by transferring a large portfolio of properties and to setup a number of companies who would be in charge for the prospects of these assets. One company that was established during this remarkable period was Castellum, in the year of 1994. After a successful process of raising capital to its development of corporate strategies and formation of several affiliated companies which operates locally, Castellum was publish on the Stockholm stock exchange 1997/1998. Now, thirteen years later after its establishment, the credit crunch in the US.

Försäkringskassans (FK) handläggare är en central person för att en smidig rehabilitering av långtidssjukskrivna skall kunna äga rum. Jag har velat visa hur FK:s insatser har tett sig för ett antal patienter sett ur företagshälsovårdens perspektiv. Patienterna som har studerats har varit bokade för rehabilitering hos företagshälsovården och de har följts under ett år. FK:s samordningsansvar har tagit sig uttryck i ställningstagande till sju rehabiliteringssteg där första steget är återgång i arbete utan andra insatser än de rent medicinska och det sjunde steget innebär bedömningen att patienten är långvarigt eller varaktigt arbetsoförmögen. I denna studie som enbart visar rehabiliteringen för ett begränsat antal patienter under en begränsad tid kan man ana FK:s närvaro främst i form av begäran om ?särskilt läkarutlåtande om hälsotillstånd? LUH.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine and compare William Easterly?s and PGU?s (Shared Responsibility: Sweden's Policy for Global Development) different views on development and international development cooperation. The methodological approach chosen in this study is an analysis of ideas based on the following questions:1. Which principles should be applied to development and international development cooperation?2.

This essay is written about how the physical environment affects teachers? own learning. The purpose is to see how the teachers? work is affected by various factors, such as the uses and placement of the teachers? offices, common room, or any other places where a meeting may occur. The survey was conducted using both interviews and observations of the teacher?s office.

The evaluation of the function of the feeding of sheep herds is suggested to involve the work effort, the fulfilment of the nutrient needs of the sheep and the feed waste. Mechanisation of the feeding can be very simple or include high degrees of mechanisation. Three different farms, representing diffeRent levels of mechanisation are presented. Descriptions and analysis of the feeding systems including mechanisation, work effort and estimations of the feed waste are made on each farm. The herd with the most advanced feed mechanisation included a rolling feed band and mix wagon. The other farms were partly or little mechanised including ad lib feeding from big bales and manual distribution of hay and concentrates. The most mechanised farm was able to feed a large herd of sheep at a low work effort and little feed waste. However, the investment in machinery has to be weighed against the improved efficiency.